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Seven poems from the Man’yoshu
With his sensitive and down-to-earth writing style
(Translation by Ian Hideo Levy)
- (40)
- On Ami Bay, the girls must now
- be riding in their boats.
- does the tide rise
- to touch the trains
- of their beautiful robes?
- (41)
- On Cape Tafushi,
- hung with shell bracelets,
- today also do the courtiers
- cut the sleek seaweed?
- (42)
- Rowed by Irago Island
- through the billows’ roar:
- does my lover ride that boat
- round the rough island shore?
- Four Tanka (46-49)
- The traveler sojourning
- on the fields of Aki
- stretches as in sleep,
- yet he cannot sleep,
- thinking of the past.
- A wild field
- where they cut the splendid grass,
- but we have come to remember our Lord,
- gone like the yellowed leaves of autumn.
- On the eastern fields
- I can see the flames of morning rise.
- Turning around,
- I see the moon sink in the west.
- The time—
- When the Crown Prince,
- Peer of the Sun,
- lined his horses and set out
- on the imperial hunt—
- comes and faces me.
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Kakinomoto Hitomaro (c.653-655-707-710 AD) is one of the most renowned of Japanese poets in history and wrote during the Japanese golden age for the arts, the Akusa period (circa 538 to 710). He is the most widely published of the poets to appear in the Man’Yoshu (“Ten Thousand Leaves”), the classic Japanese anthology of poetry. Hitomaro served as court poet to Emrpess Jito (645-703), composing many verses in praise of the imperial family. His elegies and travel poems are especially prized and are are characteristic of his sensitive and down-to-earth writing style.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Seven poems from the Man’yoshu
With his sensitive and down-to-earth writing style
Seven poems from the Man’yoshu
With his sensitive and down-to-earth writing style
(Translation by Ian Hideo Levy)
- (40)
- On Ami Bay, the girls must now
- be riding in their boats.
- does the tide rise
- to touch the trains
- of their beautiful robes?
- (41)
- On Cape Tafushi,
- hung with shell bracelets,
- today also do the courtiers
- cut the sleek seaweed?
- (42)
- Rowed by Irago Island
- through the billows’ roar:
- does my lover ride that boat
- round the rough island shore?
- Four Tanka (46-49)
- The traveler sojourning
- on the fields of Aki
- stretches as in sleep,
- yet he cannot sleep,
- thinking of the past.
- A wild field
- where they cut the splendid grass,
- but we have come to remember our Lord,
- gone like the yellowed leaves of autumn.
- On the eastern fields
- I can see the flames of morning rise.
- Turning around,
- I see the moon sink in the west.
- The time—
- When the Crown Prince,
- Peer of the Sun,
- lined his horses and set out
- on the imperial hunt—
- comes and faces me.
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Kakinomoto Hitomaro (c.653-655-707-710 AD) is one of the most renowned of Japanese poets in history and wrote during the Japanese golden age for the arts, the Akusa period (circa 538 to 710). He is the most widely published of the poets to appear in the Man’Yoshu (“Ten Thousand Leaves”), the classic Japanese anthology of poetry. Hitomaro served as court poet to Emrpess Jito (645-703), composing many verses in praise of the imperial family. His elegies and travel poems are especially prized and are are characteristic of his sensitive and down-to-earth writing style.
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